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Coprosma.] into very short broad petioles or almost sessile, bright-green, coriaceous, spreading or suberect; margins thickened. Stipules short and broad, obtuse, glabrous or ciliate. Flowers greenish-white, solitary, terminal. Males: Large for the size of the plant, ⅓–¾ in. long. Calyx minute, cupular, 4- or 8-toothed. Corolla tubular, often curved, 4–8-toothed or -lobed. Stamens 4–8. Females smaller, ¼–⅓ in. long. Calyx-limb 4–8-toothed. Corolla tubular, 4–8-lobed to about ⅓ way down. Styles 2 or 4, rarely 3 or 5. Drupe globose, ¼ in. diam., red or orange-yellow.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 110; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 119; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 250; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 245. C. pumila, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' ii. 543; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 110; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 119. C. perpusilla. ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxii. (1890) 466.

39. C. Petriei, ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xviii. (1886) 316.—Stem prostrate and creeping, usually forming broad matted patches; branches 6–18 in. long, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves usually close-set, erecto-patent, $1⁄10$–$1⁄4$ in. long, linear-oblong or linear-obovate, acute or obtuse, narrowed into short petioles or sessile, often concave, rigid and coriaceous, veinless, glabrous or sprinkled over with short white hairs on both surfaces. Flowers solitary, terminating short erect branchlets, involucellate. Males: Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄5$–$1⁄3$ in. long, tubular at the base, campanulate above, 4-lobed. Females smaller, about $1⁄8$ in. long. Calyx-limb irregularly toothed. Corolla broadly tubular, deeply 4-lobed. Drupe large, globose, ⅓–½ in. diam., variable in colour, dark-purple or bluish-purple, sometimes pale and translucent.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 246.

Small slender creeping perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Stipules small, interpetiolar. Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, hermaphrodite. Calyx-limb truncate or very obscurely 4-toothed. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, 4–5-lobed; lobes valvate. Stamens